As I was doing some sorting of my collection of CDs, I found out that processing the output of a find with sort -u was giving me a smaller list than plain sort, so I investigated. Using diff on the ...

A large portion of my system depends on symbolic links, so this is a very serious problem. I do something like the following
cd
mkdir test
mkdir other
cd test
ln -s ../other/
# So ~/test contains a ...

I am having 9GB text file which is encrypted .
This file contains some confidential data . Which is on my system(Ubuntu) and my external HDD (ntfs) . This file get daily updated and then encrypted . ...

I recently rm -rf'd all of /var/ on my box and I've made a VM with the same OS/bit, I plan to upload all of the contents from the fresh VM and replace my messed up /var/ on my box with it. What's a ...

I recently did a fresh install of ubuntu on a system with an old ubuntu install. I have a separate hard-drive which used to have a single ext4 partition, but during the install I accidentally selected ...

I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on my laptop. I have a Dell XPS l502x which works very good.
I just noticed this (possible bug?) with Ubuntu 14.04 while in the file manager in the home folder.
When I ...

I have dual booted my laptop with ubuntu 12.10 and windows 8. When I download some file via ubuntu (e.g a pdf) and save it on a windows partition(NTFS), I do not see it through windows 8. Even when I ...

I installed ubuntu 15.04 and used entire space(640 GiB) for ext4 partition but now it is showing that used space = 30.91 GiB, free space = 24.96 GiB and 536.40 GiB unallocated space. I tried to extend ...

So, I was running Arch Linux with separate / and /home. Both were btrfs partitions, but the whole drive was not managed by btrfs.
I decide to install Ubuntu 14.04. I carefully select to format / and ...

I need to manage a filesystem with a large number of files (hundreds of thousands).
This filesystem is rsynced periodically. The vast majority of files don't change often, but since there's so many, ...

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Windows 7 as dual boot. While on Ubuntu, I was using files and folders from the windows partition. I made a folder in the windows partiton, copied in it a ".docx" document ...

I tried to use GParted to rename my USB Drive. Everything appeared to run smoothly, but when I removed the drive and reinserted it, it wouldn't mount.
I can see the USB initialisation in dmesg, and ...

I was trying to take a hard drive out of a large LVM group consisting of 5 drives. It had a 5.5TB filesystem (ext4). The LV was 7.5TB. I wanted to reduce the LV by 1.82TiB so that I then could shrink ...

I can't see my "C" drive any more (excuse the DOS notation) It doesn't show up in my home folder.The drive is partitioned into a 30GB Root and the rest reserved for data None of it shows up in my home ...

I got my newly purchased wireless stick to work, but I had to change the /sys/bus/usb/drivers/r8712u/new_id file during the process. I somehow managed to add the string "050d 11f1" to it, but it seems ...

I have recently re-purposed my old desktop PC as a 'server' running Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I want to use the machine as my primary squeezebox server in place of my HTPC MacMini (to reduce the strain on the ...

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I have recently added a new 480Gb+ SSD drive. When I attempted to install a program onto the drive it wouldn't allow it to happen and a error would occur. I ended up ...

I powered off my pcDuino system and now I am getting errors and eventually ending up in root@ubuntu:~#. When I try to "exit" the root super user it only shows my last login on tty1 as being in root. I ...

I am having a problem reading files from an exFAT formatted XQD card. The card was formatted by a Sony fs7 camera and contains 4k video files shot using the fs7.
The card is a lexar 64gb and the card ...

I recently did a fresh installation of ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on my pc. Previously I was dual booting ubuntu 14.04 with windows(both 32 bit). My hdd is 500 GB. The previous structure of the hard disk was ...

First, I must confess that I know almost nothing about Ubuntu, GRUB, GNOME, or anything else to do with Linux. I've been using Windows for as long as I can remember, so my experience with Ubuntu spans ...

I have downloaded Imlib package in Home folder and perform the make there only. Now, my code where I am using #include "Imlib.h" is not able to find it. So how can I move the header files and binaries ...

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 desktop on three systems and one virtual machine. On every system I have opted for a single Btrfs partition.
During start-up I get the following two error messages. It ...